different between hue vs viridescent
hue
English
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /hju?/, [çu??]
- (US) IPA(key): /hju/, [çu], /ju/
- (General New Zealand) IPA(key): /hj??/, [ç??]
- Rhymes: -u?
- Homophone: Hugh
Etymology 1
From Middle English hewe, from Old English h?ew (“appearance, form, species, kind; apparition; hue, color; beauty; figure of speech”), from Proto-Germanic *hiwj? (“hue, form, shape, appearance; mildew”), from Proto-Indo-European *kew-, *?ew- (“skin, colour of the skin”) or *?ey- (“grey, dark shade”). Cognate with Swedish hy (“complexion, skin”), Norwegian hy (“fluff, mold, skin”), Icelandic hégómi (“vanity”), Gothic ???????????????? (hiwi, “form, show, appearance”). Compare also Sanskrit ??? (chavi, “cuticle, skin, hide; beauty, splendour”); Irish ceo (“fog”), Tocharian B kwele (“black, dark grey”), Lithuanian šývas (“light grey”), Albanian thinjë (“grey”), Sanskrit ????? (?y?vá, “brown”).
Alternative forms
- hew (obsolete)
Noun
hue (countable and uncountable, plural hues)
- A color, or shade of color; tint; dye.
- 1886, Robert Louis Stevenson, Strange Case Of Dr Jekyll And Mr Hyde
- A great chocolate-coloured pall lowered over heaven, but the wind was continually charging and routing these embattled vapours; so that as the cab crawled from street to street, Mr. Utterson beheld a marvelous number of degrees and hues of twilight; for here it would be dark like the back-end of evening; and there would be a glow of a rich, lurid brown, like the light of some strange conflagration; and here, for a moment, the fog would be quite broken up, and a haggard shaft of daylight would glance in between the swirling wreaths.
- 1886, Robert Louis Stevenson, Strange Case Of Dr Jekyll And Mr Hyde
- The characteristic related to the light frequency that appears in the color, for instance red, yellow, green, cyan, blue or magenta.
- In digital arts, HSV color uses hue together with saturation and value.
- (figuratively) A character; aspect.
- (obsolete) Form; appearance; guise.
Derived terms
- hued
Translations
Etymology 2
From Old French hu, a hunting cry.
Noun
hue (plural hues)
- (obsolete) A shout or cry.
Derived terms
- hue and cry
Anagrams
- HEU
Aragonese
Alternative forms
- güe
Etymology
From Vulgar Latin *oie, from Latin hodi?.
Adverb
hue
- today
Danish
Etymology 1
From Old Norse húfa.
Noun
hue c (singular definite huen, plural indefinite huer)
- a hat of soft material (often wool), worn in cold times
Inflection
Etymology 2
From Old Norse huga (“think”)
Verb
hue (imperative hu, infinitive at hue, present tense huer, past tense huede, perfect tense har huet)
- (transitive) To please
- 1859, Joaquim Gomes de Souza, Anthologie universelle choix des meilleures poésies lyriques de diverses nations dans les langues originales, page 863:
- Moders Røst er den Vuggesang, Der huer os bedst af Alle , Modersmaal bar en himmelsk Klang, Naar Børnene "Moder" lalle.
- 2017, TruthBeTold Ministry, English Danish Bible No12: Geneva 1560 - Dansk 1931, TRUTHBETOLD MINISTRY JOERN ANDRE HALSETH (?ISBN)
- Da sammenkaldte de tolv Disciplenes Skare og sagde: "Det huer os ikke at forlade Guds Ord for at tjene ved Bordene.
- 2011, Joan Ørting, Vær åben: energi og glæde i parforholdet, Lindhardt og Ringhof (?ISBN), page 221:
- Må jeg gå til fest med mine eks'er? Der kan være et hav af flere og andre spørgsmål, som vi gerne vil have svar på, så vi ved, hvornår vi er ved at overskride vores partners grænse. Det kan jo godt ske, at partnerens grænser slet ikke huer os.
- 1859, Joaquim Gomes de Souza, Anthologie universelle choix des meilleures poésies lyriques de diverses nations dans les langues originales, page 863:
French
Pronunciation
- (aspirated h) IPA(key): /y/
Etymology 1
Onomatopoeic, compare Dutch ju
Interjection
hue!
- yah!, cry to make (a) working animal(s) etc. advance or turn right
Antonyms
- dia!
Etymology 2
Inflected form of huer
Verb
hue
- first-person singular present indicative of huer
- third-person singular present indicative of huer
- first-person singular present subjunctive of huer
- third-person singular present subjunctive of huer
- second-person singular imperative of huer
Anagrams
- euh
Hawaiian
Etymology
From Proto-Polynesian [Term?].
Noun
hue
- A gourd
Maori
Etymology
From Proto-Polynesian [Term?].
Noun
hue
- A gourd (plant)
Middle English
Etymology 1
Pronoun
hue
- Alternative form of heo (“she”)
Etymology 2
Pronoun
hue
- Alternative form of he (“they”)
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology 1
From Old Norse húfa.
Noun
hue f or m (definite singular hua or huen, indefinite plural huer, definite plural huene)
- a cap (without a peak, often knitted), woolly hat
Synonyms
- lue
Etymology 2
Noun
hue n (definite singular huet, indefinite plural huer, definite plural hua or huene)
- (dialect, metonymically) a head
Synonyms
- hode
References
- “hue” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /²h??.?/
Etymology 1
From Old Norse húfa.
Alternative forms
- huve
Noun
hue f (definite singular hua, indefinite plural huer, definite plural huene)
- a cap (without a peak, often knitted), woolly hat
- Synonyms: lue, luve
Etymology 2
Noun
hue n (definite singular huet, indefinite plural hue, definite plural hua)
- (dialectal) alternative form of hovud (“head”)
References
- “hue” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Portuguese
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /hu?e/, /h?ue/
Alternative forms
- huehue, huehuehue and so on, depending on the supposed length of the laugh
Interjection
hue
- (Brazil, Internet slang) expressing laugh; hahaha
hue From the web:
- what hue means
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- what hue is brown
- what hue is red
- what hue are you
- what hue is the sky
- what hue is blue
- what hue is purple
viridescent
English
Etymology
C 1850 from Late Latin viridescens, present participle of viridescere; see virescent
Adjective
viridescent (comparative more viridescent, superlative most viridescent)
- Having a greenish hue; becoming somewhat green in color.
Latin
Verb
virid?scent
- third-person plural future active indicative of virid?sc?
viridescent From the web:
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